What Does This Mean?
The escalating cycle where deliberately infuriating content draws an angry response, which generates engagement, which causes the algorithm to serve even more inflammatory content, compounding the anger with each round.
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REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"Each video made me angrier than the last and somehow that's exactly what kept me watching. Full ragebait spiral."
LORE & ORIGIN
Builds on the long-standing 'ragebait' concept, 'ragebait spiral' names the 2023-era recognition that the anger isn't just a side effect of one post but the engine of an entire escalating session, since outrage reliably outperforms calmer reactions for engagement.
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